Heidi Heitkamp

Heidi Heitkamp (30 October 1955-) was a US Senator from North Dakota (D) from 3 January 2013, succeeding Kent Conrad.

Biography
Mary Kathryn Heitkamp was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota on 30 October 1955, and she graduated from the University of North Dakota and Lewis and Clark College. She interned for the US Congress in 1976 and in the state legislature in 1977, and she worked as an attorney for the EPA from 1980 to 1981 before becoming active in the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party. From 1986 to 1992, she served as Tax Commissioner of North Dakota, and she then served as State Attorney General from 1992 to 2000. In 2000, she lost the gubernatorial election to Republican Party politician John Hoeven, and she was elected US Senator in 2013 to succeed Kent Conrad. She supported a balanced budget, same-sex marriage, rolling back Dodd-Frank regulations, pro-gun legislation, Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy, and supported the Keystone Pipeline. Heitkamp held slightly more liberal views than conservative, and she supported over half of Donald Trump's views.